ATLANTA, Aug. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Atlanta Field Office issued the following press release:
ATLANTA - Sharon Henderson, a suspended member of the Georgia House of Representatives, pled guilty today in federal court to making false statements to fraudulently obtain thousands of dollars of emergency pandemic-era unemployment assistance payments.
"While running for and holding political office, Representative Henderson was fleecing taxpayers, lying to steal money from federal programs intended to help people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic," said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. "Her prosecution and conviction demonstrate that elected officials who enrich themselves through fraud w...